Sentences with phrase «damaging than global warming»

«Expect global cooling for the next 2 - 3 decades that will be far more damaging than global warming would have been» By Marc Morano A prominent U.S. geologist is urging the world to forget about global warming because global cooling has already begun.

Not exact matches

It will be cheaper, they tell us, to adjust to increased storm damage, build more dikes and seawalls, relocate people and pay the costs of increased air - conditioning than it would be to take steps to slow global warming.

Although global warming is likely to change the distribution of species, deforestation will result in the loss of more dry forests than predicted by climate change damage.

The townships must be relocated (at an estimated cost of more than $ 100 million), so they should stand a good chance of a court upholding a claim that they suffered damages because of global warming.

The visuals are great, but I fear that it's just more hype for business purposes (PR) rather than doing any serious damage in the fight against global warming.

The opportunities for preparation are one reason why economists expect the damage from global warming to be different, and perhaps less, than from natural disasters that hit by surprise.

However, they are not willing to support a similar tax to keep them safe from a global warming disaster, despite the fact that the global damages would be far greater than the damage from the September 11th terrorist attacks.

We know what the costs were: the lives of more than 30 000 people, most of them Iraqi civilians; cultural damages; a great increase in mistrust of, and hatred for, the West; and many millions of tax dollars that would have been much better spent on education, health and combating global warming.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

As Arctic and sub-Arctic regions warm more than the global average, the increase in temperature could lead to more regular fire damage to vegetation and soils and carbon release.

While forecasting the state of the environment more than 80 years into the future is a notoriously inexact exercise, academics gathered by the the United Nations at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are concerned the world is headed for «extensive» species extinctions, serious crop damage and irreversible increases in sea levels even before Trump started to unpick the fight against global warming.

With an estimated social cost of carbon — a damage estimate of global warming pollution — of $ 65 (far less than other estimates), the GED for coal - fired generators is 4.7 cents / kWh.

The monster storm — which killed more than 100 people, destroyed entire communities, and inflicted more than $ 70 billion in damages — should have completely changed the way we approach climate impacts, resilience, and global warming policy.

More than 31,000 scientists across the US, «including more than 9,000 PhD.s in fields such as atmospheric science, climatology, Earth science, environment and dozens of other specialties, have signed a petition rejecting «global warming,» the assumption that the human production of greenhouse gases is damaging Earth's climate.

Unfortunately, HFCs have huge global warming potentials (GWPs) and are several thousands of times more damaging to the climate than CO2.

See: Laughable: UN Report: «Damage being caused by climate change... is no longer a matter of debate» — «The science has become more irrevocable than ever» — Sept. 24, 2009 — Also, AP's Seth Borenstein delivered his usual pabulum on global warming, complete with extensive quotes from Corell.

Because the risks and damages from global warming go up significantly the higher that temperatures rise, even 2.5 °C warming is still preferable to 3 °C, which is better than 4 °C, which is way better than 5 °C.

Not only have global carbon emissions continued to rise 3 percent a year, but the science has made more clear that human populations and natural systems face serious risk of substantial climate damage at warming less than 2 °C, they said.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

With global warming making crop - damaging weather ever more likely, building a larger buffer of grain stocks — closer to 110 days of consumption — is more urgent than ever before.

As a matter of fact, adaptation to climate change, building resilience and dealing with loss and damages will challenge the world just as much as the necessity of mitigating global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius or less.

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A new study alleges that human - induced global warming is a fundamental cause behind the 7.1 trillion gallons of torrential rainfall that a storm dumped on Louisiana in August, leading to a flooding disaster that killed at least 13 people and caused more than $ 1 billion in damage.

Some proposed «solutions» to global warming could be more damaging in the long run than the stated dangers.

My compatriots Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick have inflicted more damage on the reputation of Michael E Mann's global - warming hockey stick than anybody else on the planet.

As recently as last December she said: «If we don't succeed in limiting global warming to 2 degrees, then the costs of the resulting damages will be many times higher than what we now, with a change in our lifestyle, can achieve.»

For hurricanes, for example, it's useful to know that for the foreseeable future the incremental change in damages caused by global warming is relatively small compared to the impact of hurricanes in the first place, so that for most practical purposes it's better to be afraid of hurricanes than to be afraid of global warming's effect on hurricanes.

Though his model is, by his own admission, somewhat simplistic, Nordhaus says his conclusions reflect an estimated impact from global warming that is «larger than most existing estimates of market damages.»

If we consider Sandy as a late season storm that anomalously strengthened in mid-latitude waters rather than weakening or dissipating, an effect that seems to trap damage from most late season tropical storms down in the Gulf, then the destruction north of Cape Hatteras from Sandy might be entirely owing to global warming, not just 20 % as the Trenberth quote suggests.

The first line sounds more like a letter to Penthouse than a scientific paper (you know, the classic «I never thought something like this would happen to me, but last Saturday night...) What caused me to delete the email (fortunately it was still in the trash so I could go back and find these quotes) was the line «findings in this paper could nt be more damaging to manmade global warming theory or the the thousands of climate scientists...» No academic in his right mind would state his / her conclusions in this manner, and even if they did, not editor or advisor would let it slip by.